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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 203500" data-attributes="member: 33">I agree with this. 27 years ago Britain was still a very homophobic place and being outed or coming out could damage someone&#039;s career if they were in the public eye. I imagine that once you start hiding your true sexuality, it becomes harder to come out because you also have to deal with how people will react to you misleading them for many years. So Mr Schofield hiding being gay for all this time will inevitably leave a lot of people feeling they were lied to, not least his wife and children. Coming out must have been doubly difficult for him so I wish him well.I might sound uncharitable but I&#039;ll be looking at the headlines of the Sunday tabloids tomorrow to see which paper was going to out him which forced him to come out now. I still don&#039;t believe he came out now just because he was dealing with an inner turmoil but because someone had gone to the Press with a story that would have outed him. The more I think about it the more I conclude the timing is odd. Tomorrow he has to present Dancing On Ice and next week he is scheduled to present This Morning. Had he chosen the time voluntarily, surely it would have been better to wait for a time when he wasn&#039;t due to be on TV so often. That would have allowed interest in the story to die down a bit and not be a distraction from his work while also enabling him to gauge how the public have reacted to the news.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 203500, member: 33"] I agree with this. 27 years ago Britain was still a very homophobic place and being outed or coming out could damage someone's career if they were in the public eye. I imagine that once you start hiding your true sexuality, it becomes harder to come out because you also have to deal with how people will react to you misleading them for many years. So Mr Schofield hiding being gay for all this time will inevitably leave a lot of people feeling they were lied to, not least his wife and children. Coming out must have been doubly difficult for him so I wish him well. I might sound uncharitable but I'll be looking at the headlines of the Sunday tabloids tomorrow to see which paper was going to out him which forced him to come out now. I still don't believe he came out now just because he was dealing with an inner turmoil but because someone had gone to the Press with a story that would have outed him. The more I think about it the more I conclude the timing is odd. Tomorrow he has to present [I]Dancing On Ice[/I] and next week he is scheduled to present [I]This Morning[/I]. Had he chosen the time voluntarily, surely it would have been better to wait for a time when he wasn't due to be on TV so often. That would have allowed interest in the story to die down a bit and not be a distraction from his work while also enabling him to gauge how the public have reacted to the news. [/QUOTE]

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